BALENCIAGA Sales Associate | Amsterdam, P.C. Hooftstraat

We Are Denim Heads.
We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA. At G-Star, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow.
Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.
Join the denim heads making raw denim.

NOTE: You need to have work authorization/study permit in The Netherlands - no immigration support is available for internships.

Here’s what we’ll do together:
Is your passion for denim as high as ours? In this internship, you will learn quality consciousness to help provide the best product to the end consumers with the right quality and high durability. Are you an enthusiastic person to think out of the box to explore the possibilities to improve the quality standard of G-star? Then you are the right person to apply for this intern position.

Just imagine -
As our new Intern Trim Development, Quality Assurance & Production Operations, you’ll help with creating / administrate our wear test management system, distribute / evaluate samples and contact other relevant department whenever improvement needed. You will act as a bridge between QA and other department for wear test management and other challenges.

You’re already a market expert in-the-making when it comes to sample management You’re going to help decide how can we simplify and more effective on sample management system.

Your task & responsibilities

You will be supporting the Trim Developer & Quality Assurance and Production Operations team. These different teams and task are closely connected within the product department.
For the Trim Development, you will assist in the following tasks:

• Support with setting up new trim developments together with the design team.
• Support on keeping good contact with the trim suppliers during the trim development stages.
• Receive trim samples and support in checking if they are ok to approve for the next collection.
• You will be responsible to keep our trim catalogue up to date and share this with the design team.

For the Quality Assurance and Production tasks:

• Support with fabric and garment risk assessments, this to prevent potential failures in production.
• Assess fabric performance by handing out, evaluating & performing wear tests.
• Support with pre-production approval stages, approvals & samples.
• Support suppliers during pre-production/production.
• Maintain the denim wash archive to control consistency throughout production process & denim collection.
• Support and investigate online and offline returns and work on corrective action plans.
• Support with quality issues & investigations.
• Support & monitor sustainability tasks.
• Handle administrative tasks (reporting, report uploads etc.).

What you bring to the table:

• Enthusiastic, out of the box thinker
• Basic knowledge in MS office
• Basic knowledge in Adobe Illustrator is a plus!
• Well organized, versatile with a can-do attitude
• Self-confident, proactive, with strong analytical and presentation skills
• You are available full-time (40hrs per week) for a period of 6 months starting in July 2024
• You are enrolled at university or college for the full length of the internship, in the Netherlands or within the EU
• If you are studying within the EU, you are in possession of a mandatory internship assignment from your school
• You are already living in the Netherlands or able to relocate quickly, and have a BSN (or in process of getting one);
• Fashion? You live and breathe it.
• It is preferred that you are pursuing a Bachelor/Master in a Textile and Research
• However, having other academic background is also fine if you are enthusiastic and eager to learn

Finally, do you have strong personality and excellent verbal and written communication skills in English? We’d love to meet you!

What we bring to the table:

Next to a compensation of €600 per month for your internship, working at G-Star brings so many perks and exciting opportunities, we don’t know where to begin… How about:

• An awesome and diverse team that collaborates to inspire
• A work environment that offers room for fun, inspiration and innovation
• A clothing budget of €400 to buy the latest G-Star items!
• To keep up the greatness we also offer you a healthy, fresh, and delicious lunch in our HQ in Amsterdam.
• If you don’t have an OV student travel card, we will cover your travel expenses.
• You will also enjoy two paid days of leave per month!

What will happen next:

During this job application, we will ask you to play a couple of short neuroscientific games. These games provide you with the opportunity to showcase your potential, talents, and personality.

• As a result, we can ensure equal opportunities for everyone who applies, by evaluating everyone based on objective, scientifically proven insights rather than gut feeling.
• As we value personal growth and transparency, we will make sure you receive your results on the games as well.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will get in touch with you and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-Star employee store.

Good luck!